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In one hour gathered in a room with Pope Francis, 13 Assembly of First Nations delegates plan to lay down heavy burdens and raise up the hope of nations.
Database tracks attacks on churches in Canada
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterThere have been 57 reported attacks on Catholic churches across Canada so far in 2021, the highest number for any single year stretching back to 2010, according to a new database tracking such attacks.
St. Joseph’s year of healing
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterIt was a great year for the Year of St. Joseph, but not because it was a great year. It was a year spent in and out of COVID lockdowns, a year of natural disasters fuelled by climate change and a year for Canadians to confront the hard truths of their history in the form of forgotten graves for Indigenous children who died at residential schools.
Hamilton anti-racism report seeks change
By Wendy-Ann Clarke, The Catholic RegisterAlmost two-thirds of Black students in the Hamilton, Ont., Catholic school board said they feel unsafe in their school, according to a new report.
Czerny calls for renewal of theology in higher learning
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterBack in Canada for the first time since receiving the red hat from Pope Francis in 2019, Cardinal Michael Czerny told the theology faculty and students at Toronto’s Regis College they must take up the neglected renewal of theology called for by the Second Vatican Council, St. Pope Paul VI and St. Pope John Paul II.
Canadians urged to make spiritual journey with Indigenous
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterAs Indigenous elders, youth, knowledge keepers and residential school survivors prepare for their historic meetings with Pope Francis Dec. 17-20, Regina Archbishop Don Bolen is inviting Canadians to journey with them spiritually.
More people, less food for food banks
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterAt 9 a.m. the line up for the St. Ann’s Church Food Bank in downtown Toronto stretches around the corner and back up to Gerrard Street. At 9:30 they’ve run out of milk and yogurt. At 10 more bags of pre-packed groceries are headed upstairs from the basement to restock tables where food bank patrons pick up their allotment for the week.
Delegates to get unprecedented access to Pope Francis
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterIndigenous delegates to Rome will have at least three hours of direct, face-to-face conversation with Pope Francis spread over four days, topped off with their presence at an hour-long general audience.
Healing demands prayer, action
By Catholic Register StaffWhile the upcoming delegation of Indigenous leaders and Canadian bishops travelling to Rome next month to meet the Pope in Rome is an “important, outward and public sign of a commitment to healing and reconciliation,” Catholics must look inward to answer the call to true healing, said Cardinal Thomas Collins.
Healing, reconciliation focus of Cardinal’s Dinner
By Mickey Conlon, The Catholic RegisterReconciliation will be the major theme for the annual Cardinal’s Dinner in the Archdiocese of Toronto on Nov. 23.
Younger Canadians embrace religious authenticity: study
By Quinton Amundson, The Catholic RegisterWhile 70 per cent of participants in a recent survey believe God and religion should be completely kept out of public life, a data point suggests a Canada more open to public figures speaking and acting based on their religious beliefs is a possibility.